Kanchenjunga
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Configuration
Select the weights and styles you want to include in your project.
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Package Manager
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1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource/kanchenjunga 2. Import in App
// Please select at least one weight and style 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Kanchenjunga", sans-serif;
} Google Fonts CDN
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HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style --> Fontsource CDN
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Global CSS
/* Please select at least one weight and style */ Background & Story
The Kirat Rai script is used to write the Bantawa language in the Sikkim state of India. Kanchenjunga is the first Unicode font family for this script of South Asia and The Kirat Rai script was officially encoded in the Unicode Standard version 16.0. The font is named after the third highest mountain in the world, located on the border between Sikkim state in northeast India and eastern Nepal. This peak represents the geographical distribution of the Bantawa language.
The design of the font is loosely based on the handwriting style of Kirat Rai which was used in some of the early reading primers for Kirat Rai. Kirat Rai script is also called “Khambu Rai Lipi” in West Bengal.
This font was developed by SIL, and you can learn more about it at software.sil.org/kanchenjunga. To contribute, see github.com/silnrsi/font-kanchenjunga.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource/kanchenjunga Designed by
Becca Hirsbrunner Spalinger
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License
OFL-1.1